Event organizers of Match Race Germany, the Swedish Match Tour's sixth event, moved up the start of round robin competition to take advantage of Lake Constance's afternoon breeze on Thursday and provide a possible cushion in racing for later in the week.

For a short period of time the strategy paid off as the first round of group A-1 was completed. However, the light breeze quickly dissipated to little more than sporadic puffs and the second round was abandoned.

Undefeated after two races was Cameron Appleton of Team New Zealand. Match Race Germany is Appleton's first appearance on the Swedish Match Tour in more than a year and also his first experience sailing on a lake.

"You need a bit of luck and then you have to create your own luck," said Appleton. "Jeremy (Lomas) has been here before and is working the bow and calling tactics so he's going to be very helpful for us this week trying to figure out the breeze and finding the good puffs to create some speed."

Completing Appleton's Team New Zealand crew here is Adam Beashel. Lomas and Beashel are also part of Appleton's core match team back in Auckland.

The Diamont 2000 racing yachts are quite different from the ACC boats that Appleton drives and take some getting used to. "The boats here are a handful and made for agile people. They are small and we have three man crews so there's a lot happening at once and everyone is active and important to the success of a match."

Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

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